Grain thresher and separator.



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GRAIN THBESHEB AND SEPARATUR.

(Application led May 14, 1900.)

(No Model.)

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 667,876, dated February12, 1901. Application led May 14, 1900. Serial No. 16,584. (No model.)

To (all whom it may concer-rt:

Be it known that I, PETER HABEGER, a citizen of the United States,residing at West Bend, in the county of Palo Alto and State of Iowa,have invented a new and useful Improvement in Grain 'lhreshers andSeparators, of which the following is a specification.

My Objectis to provide means for more thoroughly shaking and separatingstraw and To grain as they are passed rearward from the cylinder in athreshing-machine.

Heretofore cross-bars have been fixed to the side bars of a straw-shakerand tines fixed to the cross-bars. Auxiliary frames have also been xedto the side bars of a straw-shaker to project upward and rearward andrakes pivotally connected with the free ends of the auxiliary frames;but in no instance have shaker-frames been provided with iixed tines zoand arranged and combined in a shaker and with curtains, as contemplatedby my invention, which consists in the arrangement and combination of aplurality of auxiliary shakers or forks with a vibrating straw shakerand carrier, ashereinafter set forth, pointed out in my claims, andillustrated in the accompanying drawings, in Which- Figure l is alongitudinal sectional View of a portion of a thresher, a straw carrierand 3o shaker, and my auxiliary shakers or forks combined therewith, asrequired for practical use. Fig. 2 is a top view of the improved strawshaker and carrier shown in Fig. l.

The letter A designates a portion of the frame and top, and A2 the sidewall, of a threshing-machine.

B represents a threshing-cylinder, and B2 a beater mounted in the frontend portion of the machine-frame.

4o C and C2 are the parallel side bars of the frame of a shaker mountedupon supports D and D2, that are pivotally connected with the side wallsof -a machine in such a manner that when vibrated they will impartreciprocating .4.5 longitudinal motions to the shaker and the auxiliaryshakers or forks combined therewith and carried thereby. Cross-pieces f,xed on the top surfaces of the side pieces of the main shaker-frame,have inclined top 5o faces, as shown in Eig. 1.

At intervals alongl the length of the carrierframe round bars orfork-tines h are fixed to cross-pieces gto extend rearward and upwardfrom their rear faces in such a manner that straw will be elevatedthereby and shaken thereon to facilitate the separation of grain fromthe straw.

Auxiliary frames and straw-shakers com posed of parallel side pieces Jand J2 and cross-pieces f are iixed to the side bars of the 6o mainshaker-frame to extend upward and rearward therefrom, and a plurality ofcrosspieces g, having fixed projections or tines 7L, extending upwardand rearward, are also fixed to said auxiliary frames, as shown in Fig.1, in such a manner that straw will be elevated thereby and shaken as itpasses rearward from the cylinderand beater at the front end of themachine.

K and K2 are iiexible deiiectors suspended 7o over the straw shaker andcarrier to prevent straw from being forced over the front portion of theshaker and carrier Without being subjected `to its shaking andseparating action.

It is obvious that when straw is elevated by means of the auxiliaryshakers it will at the same time be shaken and separated to facilitatedropping of the grain from the straw and that the straw also will dropfrom the 8o ends of the fork tines or projections h of the auxiliaryshakers and in doing so aid in separating the grain from the strawduring the passage of the straw and grain rearward from the cylinder.

Having thus described the construction and operation of my invention,its practical utility will be understood by persons familiar with theart to which it pertains.

What I therefore claim as new, and desire 9o to secure by LettersPat-ent therefor, is*- 1. In a thresher and separator, a strawshakercomprising side bars, a plurality of cross-pieces fixed thereto, tinesfixed to said crosspieces to project rearward, auxiliary frames,composed of side pieces and crosspieces, xed to the side bars of thestrawshaker and tines fixed to the cross-pieces of the auxiliary frames,arranged and combined as shown and described to operate in the man- 10oner set forth for the purposes stated.

2. ln a thresher and separator, a strawshaker comprising. side bars, aplurality of der and over the front end portion of the cross-piecesfixed thereto, Lines Xed to said straw shaker, arranged and combined asxo cross-pieces to project rearward, auxiliary shown and described tooperatein the manframes composed of side pieces and crossner set forthfor the purposes stated.

5 pieces 'fixed to the side bars of the straw- PETER HABEGER. shaker andlaines xed to the cross-pieces of Witnesses. the auxiliary frames, andcurtains iixed to W. B. LANG, the roof of the machine in rear of thecylin- W. K. SWEENY.

